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This was an interesting challenge. i can do 8 leds when all on the same port but the shield base has 2 ports down the traditional arduino digital ports. So what to do? the first program is easy - just program them all individually. great but what if i want to change things? Enter the forum and...

Yay day 2 has finally arrived - and you thought i ment i ws going to be chronological about it. The following diagram is the 3d blowout supplied by sparkfun (from the oomlet collection of files) and the breadboard layout image. This method is great for students and have tried it for some 555...

hi just in the process of converting the sparkfun inventor's kit from arduino to picaxe. Which has been an interesting and enjoyable challenge but I must now return to an aspect that I cannot find a solution for, cascading LEDs from s.2 to s.9 and back again. The arduino uses an array to move...

Hi My plan over the next 29 days is to convert the 15 page Sparkfun Inventor's Guide from the Arduino version to a picaxe version. Why 29 days do you ask? Well the origianal source files from oomlout are in Corel Draw and I only have an old version, so I have downloaded the fully featured 30...

Am i correct in my memory that Rev-Ed were going to release a picaxe version of the lilypad based on the 20x2 or similar? Was it called the daisypad - I would love one (acually many - have 25 lilypads that I would replace) of these if they are produced. bye tiny

Hi Just wondering if anyone has the RGB LED Strip - 32 LED/m Addressable - 1m from sparkfun? They use the WS2801 IC which can individually pulse each colour on a 256 grey scale curve. This means that you need to pass 24 bytes of information for each RGB LED (8 bytes for the red led, 8 for the...

Just been to sparkfun.com and they have just posted a video of a picaxe controlled knitting machine. it is cool, and as someone who is getting into e-textiles with students at school things like this inspire me. Just one problem. no information or vision of the controlling board/s just of it...

Hi Just to let people in Adelaide know that there is an expo of student electronic work at the Golden Grove Community Arts Centre, Wednesday 10th November from 11.30am to 1pm and Riverton Community Gym, Thursday 11th November from 5.30pm to 8pm (we also have our wine launch and a BBQ) It is...